Dana's Valley

Dana, a young teenager, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and her solidly Christian family deals with the resulting turmoil. A teen son strays, a younger child feels neglected, and a sister struggles with bitterness toward God.

©2001 Janette Oke (P)2009 Bethany House

Family walking through grief

A story sharing with us a family walking through the crisis of one of their daughters dying with cancer

Sad but extremely worthwhile

The books is written from the younger sister’s perspective as her sister faces cancer. Whew. Tear jerker. But it was still hopeful. It gives you a peek into the sufferings of the whole family, not just the person with the diagnosis. I dislike the narrator’s voices, but she did a good job with the emotion and expression. A hard listen. But if you have any friends or family who are walking through cancer- it is such a worthwhile listen to see suffering up close. And to see suffering when you have faith in God.

oh my gosh!

this story was so cute! it had so much feeling and the narrator was AMAZING!

More current Janette Oke storyline

True to life's difficult circumstances and journeys with a good perspective of the roller coaster that can take us on especially as believers… Although the narrator did a good job in her regular voice, both narrating and as the adult characters, I found her children's voices to be artificial, too young sounding for the age of the characters and a little distracting to the story.

I loved the way they brought out that bad things happen, but you can see God working throughout the entire process.

This helped me deal with why God allows bad things to happen and how He works through people and situations!!